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Geekery, News
“There has been no harsher critic of Barack Obama’s lack of experience than Joe Biden. Biden has denounced Barack Obama’s poor foreign policy judgment and has strongly argued in his own words what Americans are quickly realizing — that Barack Obama is not ready to be President,” said Ben Porritt, a spokesman for Mr. McCain.
They [...]
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Commentary, News
The hopefully-not-too Long Run
I had a feeling that was going to happen last night, but I wasn’t ready for the fear that would creep into my very steadfast mind about this: now that the Media/Barack Complex narrative is moving to the fore as sort of a self-reflexive reaction to Hillary and SNL’s criticism, and the media had gone [...]
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News, Scribbles, Space & Place
A little bit of Milk
Castro Street, nexus of San Francisco’s greatest neighborhoods and a cultural and historical home for the gay right’s movement, is turning back the clock to the mid 1970s for Hollywood. Store fronts all along the neighborhood’s main strip are being redone in period style, most notably - and nosalgically - Milk’s Castro Camera is back, [...]
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Link, News
The wrath of the glue stick
Scrapbooking bloggers called it “Hall of Fame-Gate,” naming it the top scrapbooking scandal of 2007. They compared it to the performance-enhancing-drug controversies involving major league baseball player Barry Bonds and Olympic track star Marion Jones.
Fantastic, from the L.A. Times: A scrapbook career in shreds.
The great thing is that all these forty- to sixty-something women railing [...] -
Commentary, Link, News
How often is often?
The Times had a front page headline yesterday, “Obama’s Vote in Illinois Was Often Just ‘Present.’”
Call me an Obama shill (I am), but I have an itch to scratch: the article states that then-State Senator Obama used the “Present” vote to register disapproval of measures he found unconstitutional or by party instruction “nearly 130 times.” [...] -
Commentary, News, Video
Nuditygate 2007: Innocent Students in the Crossfire
12.15.07 | Permalink | 4 CommentsEvery year a bunch of kids at Tufts get drunk and run around naked on the last day of classes; we call it NQR. This year, a reporter (obviously without any exciting Monday night plans) from a local paper1 got the bright idea to head up to campus with a video camera and a dream [...]
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Link, News
An advice column from the grave
First, stop acting like a vitamin-deficient Adlai Stevenson.
To this political neophyte, Karl Rove seems to hit on exactly what Barack is doing wrong in these last weeks before an Iowa Caucus that Obama is potentially poised to take. Click through for mind-blowing sideline commentary from the former Deputy White House Chief of Staff at the [...] -
Link, News
Tufts: a leading source for unaffordable contraception
The fabulous Nikki Bruce (LA’08) does the old Times front page story thing today in a piece on the “Big Rise in Cost of Birth Control on Campuses“. Sing it, Nikki…
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Link, News, Video
An invincible Germany
David Lynch here. I don’t want to have anything to do with Hitler. We all know he was not a good person who did terrible things.
Shitshow at David Lynch’s meditation conference in Berlin when his guest speaker expresses a desire for “an invincible Germany.” When the crowd points out that Hitler wanted one, too, speaker [...] -
Commentary, News, Tech
When it rains, it torrents.
It’s rain verging on snow outside in Boston tonight; the girls and I laid low after a short (that’d be one day) first week of classes and watched The West Wing on DVD.
I was downloading a little something else on BitTorrent for afterwards, but unhappy with the Torrent, went looking elsewhere.
Everytime I search The Pirate [...]
